Muslims across India offer prayers on last Friday of Ramadan Newstrack India | Lucknow/Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh), Sep 3 (ANI): Muslims across India gathered in huge numbers at various mosques to offer the 'Alvida Namaz' on the occasion of the last 'Jumma' of the fasting month of Ramadan on Friday. | In a unique display of amity, thousands of devotees congregated at Luc...
Target of making India slum-free in 5 years achievable: Selja The Times Of India NEW DELHI: Housing and urban poverty alleviation minister Kumari Selja on Friday said the target of making India slum-free in the next five years as envisaged in the Rajiv Awas Yojana was "not unachievable" but a lot would depend on how states cooperated with the Centre on the issue. | Though the in...
Wipro partners with Oracle to offer analytics solutions The Siasat Daily | Bangalore, Septeember 03: Indian IT bellwether Wipro has teamed up with global enterprise software products firm Oracle to offer a warranty management and analytics solution for industrial manufacturing, automotive and high-tech industries, the com...
Prisoners 'escort' cops to police station The Siasat Daily | Lucknow, September 04: In a role reversal, two prisoners took into "custody" two drunk constables who were escorting them for a court hearing and took them to a police station | in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district, officials said Friday. | The unl...
PIB of India
India, S Korea sign five-year defence coop agreement Deccan Herald New Delhi, Sept 3 (PTI): Friday, September 03, 2010 --> | India and South Korea today entered into a five-year defence cooperation accord by signing two memorandums of understandin...
Should cricket betting in India be legalised? Merinews IF ANY cricket team can be guaranteed to create more headlines off the cricket field then on it, it is Pakistan. It is shame that no other team in international level spo...
Azad holds review meet to check dengue in Delhi Deccan Herald New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) Friday, September 03, 2010 --> | Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Friday is holding a review meeting to discuss ways to check the rising number of dengue ca...
Match-fixing is all News to ICC The Daily Telegraph Australia | FOURTEEN years ago, my late father, Bruce, travelled to India from London on assignment. He was the European correspondent for News Limited, an esteemed reporter who managed to traverse just about every aspect of journalism in his long career. | Sp...
Allegiances and the Call of the Local The New York Times | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — Some identities compel people more than others. College reunions inspire more enthusiasm than graduate-school ones. Humans spend substantially more time reconvening with those who share their birth religion than the...
Azad holds review meet to check dengue in Delhi Deccan Herald New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) Friday, September 03, 2010 --> | Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Friday is holding a review meeting to discuss ways to check the rising number of dengue cases in the national capital ahead of the Commonwealth Games, an official said. | "With the outbreak of dengue creating jitters, a high-level meeting with officials from t...
Navy called in as devastating floods return to batter Pakistan and India The Independent | Pakistan's navy sailed to the rescue of people stranded by devastating floods yesterday, while in India rescuers dug through destroyed homes and piles of mud after huge landslides in the remote north of the country killed about 130 people and left more than 500 missing. | Using rubber and wooden vessels, the troops patrolled parts of Sindh provin...
'Aamir called me cute. That doesn’t mean I’ll join Bollywood' The Times Of India Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal crashed out of the Badminton World Championships in Paris on Friday. But today is a special day as the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award will be given to her, making her the 23rd member of a select club. Shortly before she left for Paris, the 20-year-old world number two took time off from signing the T-shirts requested by Ind...
